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Curious to know if anyone in a fully remote or mostly remote company: does your employer have even informal etiquette about “off-hours” messaging or is the stan
by dvtrn 6y ago
Curious to know if anyone in a fully remote or mostly remote company: does your employer have even informal etiquette about “off-hours” messaging or is the stance more ad-hoc and left up to the employee to enforce those sorts of boundaries?
What’s the proper approach between the two, just looking for general opinion.
- withinboredom 6y agoAutomattic: off-hours contact is normal, just don't expect a response until they get back to work. My team is spread out around the world, there's always someone asleep while you're working. If it's an emergency (like you deployed broken code and closed your computer) you can probably expect a phone call and/or text message. Edit: one of the benefits of getting a late-night IM is to read it and have plenty of time to think about a response. Though, many people do not have Slack installed on their phones and only on their work computers.
- detaro 6y agoFor us, it's pretty much "don't expect an answer", and DMs while away are sort of uncommon (i.e. people rather send an e-mail then, or wait until you are back). We have people working all kinds of schedules in various time zones, but you typically have some idea when the people you directly work with right now are around, you pre-schedule times for meetings, and most people leave away messages indicating when they'll be back if they are away at normal work times.
- vtbassmatt 6y agoGitHub: no expectation of an immediate reply even during your local "business hours". I'm new here and really appreciating the aggressively asynchronous culture.